Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. Hornung

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Classic

Feliz Navidad as we say in San Antonio, Texas!I am actually in Indiana tonight and waiting
on a blizzard which I hope will not affect my travel plans Friday.I am spending Christmas with my family here
and will be bringing my 97 year old mother to Texas for the winter to get her
out of the snow and cold.

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Now,
down to business with Mr. Justice Raffles
by English author E. W. Hornung (brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.) (US
Edition)(UK Edition)

This book is the last in the Raffles series about the gentleman crook.It has a very nice beginning!

Raffles had vanished from
the face of the town, and even I had no conception of his whereabouts until he
cabled to me to meet the 7.31 at Charing Cross next night. That was on the
Tuesday before the 'Varsity match, or a full fortnight after his mysterious
disappearance.

I love a mystery!

The traffic in Piccadilly
came as crisply to the ear as on a winter's night of hard frost. It was a night
of wine, and sparkling wine, and the day at Lord's must surely be a day of
nectar. I could not help wondering whether any man had ever played in the University
match with such a load upon his soul as E.M. Garland was taking to his forced
slumbers; and then whether any heavy-laden soul had ever hit upon two such
brother confessors as Raffles and myself!

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I am a Hoosier who spent many years in Chicago and am now in San Antonio. My passion is reuniting lost dogs with their families. I am the Director of the Facebook page, Lost Dogs of Texas and a co-founder of "Lost Dog Awareness Day."

I am not new to reuniting families. After Katrina, I helped people in evacuee shelters in San Antonio to track their missing family members. After that work ended, I started a volunteer group that reunited over 1500 Katrina animals with their families by deciphering information online and tracing evacuees.

I am writing a book about two stolen Yorkies who were found after an amazing eighteeen month search. It is tentatively titled "Finding Baxter and Cooper: A Woman, a Private Investigator and their Successful Search for Two Stolen Dogs."